I have already moved my addon scenery to M4 SSD. I was wondering if there was any downside to moving all the default FSX scenery and textures to this drive and then re-pointing the scenery library to read it? My goal is to get faster scenery loading and less stutters.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Slim

You shouldn't have any problems, I did it and Didn't have any problems at all !!

Been running FSX with all it's scenery on an SSD and the only thing I've noticed is that it feels smoother and loads quicker

Smooth and quick is what I'm looking for.

 

Been wondering if it would speed up loading times to all FSX to cache the most frequently used sceneries?

 

Obie

Smooth and quick is what I'm looking for.

 

Been wondering if it would speed up loading times to all FSX to cache the most frequently used sceneries?

 

Obie

 

I have all my scenery and planes on SSD (total ~180GB), it sadly didn't speed up loading time for me at all, just FSX sits there doing apparently nothing now, rather than before where I assumed it was actually having to load a lot of data...

 

The major bottleneck for me, loading time wise, is the part where FSX enumerates all of the aircraft (which isn't even used, because when you open a save file, or open the choose aircraft window, it still re-enumerates them all... :rolleyes: ). Particularly, the MyTraffic X models - If I dump those out of the load sequence, FSX loads about 10x faster, but then no AI, and I don't like the traffic from UT2.

 

OTOH, I definitely see less texture mashing when moving between areas, and far less black squares 'until it loads the textures' than I had on HDD, and probably a bit less on the transient blurries.

I have all my scenery and planes on SSD (total ~180GB), it sadly didn't speed up loading time for me at all, just FSX sits there doing apparently nothing now, rather than before where I assumed it was actually having to load a lot of data...

 

The major bottleneck for me, loading time wise, is the part where FSX enumerates all of the aircraft (which isn't even used, because when you open a save file, or open the choose aircraft window, it still re-enumerates them all... :rolleyes: ). Particularly, the MyTraffic X models - If I dump those out of the load sequence, FSX loads about 10x faster, but then no AI, and I don't like the traffic from UT2.

 

OTOH, I definitely see less texture mashing when moving between areas, and far less black squares 'until it loads the textures' than I had on HDD, and probably a bit less on the transient blurries.

 

If your bottleneck is loading aircraft, then why not move your Aircraft (simobjects) folder to a SDD.

 

By the time you have moved both Scenery & Simobjects to your SDD, you may as well put your whole FSX folder on the SDD.

If your bottleneck is loading aircraft, then why not move your Aircraft (simobjects) folder to a SDD.

 

By the time you have moved both Scenery & Simobjects to your SDD, you may as well put your whole FSX folder on the SDD.

 

As I said, 'scenery and planes', the simobjects folder IS on the SSD, and it makes no difference to my loading time. The only difference to the loading process is that whereas before the process would take ~2-3 minutes with constant flickering of the disk access LED, it now takes ~2-3 minutes with hardly any LED flickering. The bottleneck is clearly not in the 'loading' but in the processing that FSX does when it enumerates the aircraft.

 

As for putting the whole folder on there? there's quite a bit of disk space used by vendor specific configuration tools (and occasionally multiple copies of configuration tools, I'm looking at you CS and Realair) and multiple copies of nav databases, that don't get loaded except for when I choose that aircraft, and only on initial load, so there's no benefit to them being on the SSD at all.

Just for information I just ran three quick tests and am quoting the longest times.

 

From clicking the icon to the welcome screen 4s

 

From clicking fly now to being on the Tarmac. 28s

 

I'm using UT2 and the PDMG for these runs.

I'm trying to run MegaSceneryNewYork on a 2nd SSD drive, without any luck. When I use FSX scenery manager, and locate the file, then I click on the file folder E.G. New York 001, that name should be shown in the directory box, and the "Scenery area title" box, and it is when I use the default FSX Addon scenery folder. But when I direct to that folder on the 2nd drive, those boxes remain empty, so the "OK" button doesn't work, as there's no Folder/Filename to associate to the scenery.

I managed it OK with FS Altitude Western Europe, so I'm confident my method is fine, but can't seem to do it with megascenery...

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

 

(I wish I could work out how to upload screenshots on Avsim, it would be a lot clearer :unsure: )

 

PS I know there's a "Quirk" with WIN7 64bit, and FSX scenery installer, and I have viewed the iblueyonder (excellent) video tutorial, but that isn't the problem in this case....